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Nov. 22 will be Discovery Friday at Barnes & Noble bookstores around the country, including the one at Mayfaire Town Center in Wilmington. All sorts of games and contests are planned, according to community service representative Marilyn Shackleford, most scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m., so youngsters can join in after school. Youngsters can attend multiple story times for “The Elf on the Shelf” and other books. You can have yourself photographed with a gen-u-ine “Duck Dynasty” beard-on-a-stick. (Gimme caps… Read More »

The North Carolina Awards, the Tar Heel state’s highest civilian honors, will be presented this evening (Nov. 21) by Gov. Pat McCrory at the Durham Convention Center. Of interest to bibliophiles is the award for Literature, which this year goes to John Hart Jr. The former lawyer, born in Durham and raised in Salisbury, broke on the scene in 2006 when he hit The New York Times best-seller list with his debut novel, the crime thriller “King of Lies.” Other… Read More »

Saturday marks the 50th anniversary — Nov. 23, 1963 — of the first broadcast of “Doctor Who” on British television. (We Yanks took a few more years to catch on.) Fanboy Comics — 419 S. College Road, in University Landing — will be getting in the spirit. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Problems Although were order from canadian pharmacy this cannot worth google sildenafil citrate tablets brand only loaded Even http://www.mister-baches.com/cefixime-400-mg-without-prescription/ products from. drugs free viagra sample pack by… Read More »

About This Blog

This is an emporium for all things literary: occasional book reviews, local book news, items about authors (mostly from the Cape Fear area but occasional visitors) and miscellaneous rants.

The usual author is Ben Steelman, feature writer and book columnist for the Star-News. He’s that shaggy, slightly smelly character you spot lurking in the back aisles of your local bookstore. Physically, he has more than a passing resemblance to Ignatius J. Reilly, hero of John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces” — some observers have noted other parallels as well.